Things that hurt your art?

[sadghost]

Things you are skipping or doing wrong or whatever.

For me it would be: sometimes (most of the times) i skip the planing/composition or even the drawing stick figure/gesture/etc and start drawing the face, or start drawing the nose or whatever, without drawing the pose first.

[liann]

sometimes i get confident that "oh this scene is easy to draw. I'll do it later" only to find out it's not and I have procrastinated for half a day.

[vothnthorvaldson]

Multiple interruptions.
I often have 5 minutes here and there during the day (especially this year) but never even one hour free at once.
It's hurting my art for sure, and worse, preventing me to learn new techniques, as that would require a concentration that does not come in 5 minutes...
I'm impatient winter comes, then I will have pkemty of time...

[silverraven0]

Being overly obsessive with clean lines. Like, I sometimes spent a few precious minutes for a single, simple line...

[Shanny8]

Since I'm in the "business" of making this comic- backgrounds. My current problem- I started using Sketch Up to help create [some] backgrounds coz it was fairly easy- then I found the version I was using was a trial(when it expired)...back then I didnt have the money to invest in another version, so I decided to do some other things; twice I have tried to use Blender & I keep scrapping it because I dont have the TIME to meticulously make stuff just for a background scene.

Thinking of looking back at Sketch Up- I think they have a plan that might be cost effective; if not I'm really gonna have to figure something out or find something that that is easy.

[sarrowsmith10]

I often have 5 minutes here and there during the day (especially this year) but never even one hour free at once.

The story of my life!! I have little kids at home that interrupt.. ALOT. My older son also loves to sit with me when I draw (which I love) but then he is asking a thousand questions a minute and I can't even have a coherent thought for more than 30 seconds. Sometimes I just wait until the whole house is asleep. LOL

The thing that hurts my art the most is my tendency to rush through things that I don't particularly enjoy doing. For example, I love sketching and doing linework but dislike coloring.. so the coloring is rather MEH.

[TheBlankScroll]

I think my coloring process is a little inefficient and busy. I'm going for a painterly look mostly but kinda end up with a very busy photoshopy looking result. At least in my eyes.

[TeddyLemon]

Errands, chores and procrastination. My enemies...

I’m a lazy kind of artist especially when I rush my comic. I make the line art look sketchy and my coloring is all over the place, as long as it looks decent enough its good to go

[azzy-m]

I tend to forget about flipping the canvas when I draw. I intentionally don't flip the canvas sometimes due to exhaustion, basically "I feel like death I'm gonna finish this panel so I can finally go to sleep"

[CodeMonkeyArts]

I tend to forget about flipping the canvas when I draw. I intentionally don't flip the canvas sometimes due to exhaustion, basically "I feel like death I'm gonna finish this panel so I can finally go to sleep"

UGHHHH!!!! I hate it when I forget the stupid flip thingie.

Hands will always haunt me. Faces I can do in one sitting, hair, outfits, etc. But then I have to do something with fingers and shit. AND IT TAKES FOREVER!

STUPID HANDS!

[jdlareva]

Laziness in planning out a page as well as laziness in shading / coloring.

Also, I have very sketchy way of drawing that isn't always the best for comics in which clear dynamic lines usually convey a story better

[azzy-m]

Hands will always haunt me. Faces I can do in one sitting, hair, outfits, etc. But then I have to do something with fingers and shit. AND IT TAKES FOREVER!

Ughhh same. Hands don't take me forever but because they either end up looking decent or they end up looking like complete shit. Sometimes the fingers are all the same length, sometimes they're too small (hands should cover your face, so therefore they'd be about that big) and sometimes they're both!

Don't even get me started on toes... Because I don't know how to draw toes.

[Mari]

1. My depression
2. People telling me it's below mediocore
3. My depression
4. Physical ailments
5. My depression
6. My depression

that's about it

[CodeMonkeyArts]

Gotta say this gets me too. Depression is shit.

[PaulDevers]

Probably hands... and probably the lack of reference image most of the time; usually my reference image is the last page that character showed up. XD

[SuperRazz]

Sometimes my Sketches are too simple. Then for the lineart I ballpark the anatomy based on those and it just ends up looking wrong.

[Anthien]

Drawing with a mouse... can't have variations in line thickness so it'll never look natural.

I still do the sketches with pencil and paper and scan it. However I can't get into using a web-tablet even though I have one.

Just don't like how it feels. Feelsbadman.

[feardeer]

Mental health is my biggest obstacle right now, but I'm taking steps.

Other issues...

Too many ideas, not enough time or focus.
Trouble prioritizing my studies and projects. I know there are a lot of things I need to work on. I never know where to concentrate first though, so my approach is rather scattered, and I think that slows down my progression a great deal.

[joannekwan]

My short attention span. I can only work non-stop on a piece if I'm reeaallllyyyy into it. Otherwise I'll just keep tabbing out and looking at the internet.

[DualDragons]

Oh my god I relate on this so much it hurts